Retrieving Mail from the Old Alpha (now Omega) Server
On August 23, 2004 the College's email server, known then as
alpha.lehman.cuny.edu
was replaced by the Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS). At
that time the Alpha
server was renamed:
omega.lehman.cuny.edu
As of August 23, mail addressed to alpha.lehman.cuny.edu
or lehman.cuny.edu was
redirected to the new OCS servers (ocsimap.cuny.edu).
Omega is no longer
receiving mail from outside of the system. However, it is still
possible to retrieve
mail from Omega via telnet with Pine or through a desktop client such as
Eudora or Outlook. You may want to do so if you used Pine on the
old alpha server to
store your email or if you did not download your email through August
23 into your desktop
email client.
Omega will be shutdown entirely on November 1, 2004.
To access Omega via telnet, run
telnet with the following hostname or IP address:
telnet
omega.lehman.cuny.edu
or
telnet
148.84.103.63
Your username and password remains the same.
We have not investigated the possibility of transferring Pine folders
into OCS. If you need
copies of old mail on the new server, you may want to forward the mail
to your email
account on OCS. (It is still possible to send mail out from
omega.)
To retreive mail on omega in a
desktop client
Eudora for Windows
Select
Tools > Options > Getting Started
Select
Incoming Server
change
alpha.lehman.cuny.edu to omega.lehman.cuny.edu
Select Outgoing Server
Change
alpha.lehman.cuny.edu to smtp-relay.cuny.edu if you are updating a PC
on campus.
If you were
using your ISP's SMTP server off campus (e.g. mail.optonlin.net) do not
change the
setting.
Do
not change your email address to username@omega.lehman.cuny.edu. Leave
your old address
with or without 'alpha' in the
hostname. This way individuals responding to mail you send out
from
omega will send their replies to OCS.
Similar changes may be made in Outlook, Outlook Express
and Netscape.